He was a good #2 last season. If Timonen came back and played like he did last year, Coburn will look like his old self.
I think Coburn pretty much has been himself after his first 5 games back where he looked awful... I think it is kind of a 'perception hangover' from those 5 games following him. He has pretty much been normal Coburn since in my eyes, solid D for 95% of the time vs tough competition.
I hate +/- but he is 0 on the year.
He is also a + in Corsi Rel, and has the 3rd best raw Corsi on the D after Streit and Schenn. While arguably getting the hardest minutes amongst D men (Schultz has an argument as well, both have played virtually identical minutes on the season at EV.)
His Corsi against per 60 is also the best on the defence by a large margin... 50.50, next best is Schultz at 52.87... after that is AMac and Streit both around 54.90. That is a massive difference... especially when Schultz has been hogtied to him for the most part and he plays far tougher minutes than Streit and AMac.